The New Stack
6/26/2026

AWS, Microsoft, and Google agree the session is the new unit of compute. They disagree on how to isolate it.
Short summary
AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic independently converged on sessions as the fundamental compute unit but diverge on isolation strategies—signaling market maturation in session-based infrastructure for persistent AI workloads.
- •Four AI/cloud giants rebuilt session-centric compute architecture simultaneously
- •Agreement on strategy direction; divergence on isolation implementation
- •Reflects industry shift toward persistent, stateful computing for AI
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